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Faculty Profile: James Skillen
In an ideal world, Calvin professor James Skillen says, his job description would be simple: backpacking. "Unfortunately, though, that’s not how it works," he joked. August 31,2010

Interning at Berlin Raceway
When Brent Schuster was a little kid, he dreamed of playing for the Denver Nuggets; he still dreams of being on the professional basketball team’s payroll—but in a slightly different capacity. August 30,2010

The Forgotten Woman's Bible
Around the turn of the century, Katherine Bushnell, an American doctor working as a medical missionary in China, noticed what she thought were mistranslated passages in the Chinese version of the Bible. August 24,2010

Felch honored for book
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women has honored Calvin English professor Susan Felch with the 2010 Translation or Teaching Edition prize for her book Elizabeth I and Her Age (2009) August 19,2010

Calvin earns high marks from U.S. News & World Report
Calvin College ranks near the top of the list in a handful of categories in U.S. News & World Report's 2011 edition of Best Colleges. August 18,2010

Atop St. Adalbert's Basilica
On a recent Friday evening, Michael Rodriguez left his keys behind at work. His workplace was locked. It was also 150 feet in the air—at the top of the scaffolding that currently runs alongside the south bell tower of the Basilica of St. Adalbert. August 16,2010

Faculty Profile: Randall Bytwerk
Randall Bytwerk is a professor of communication arts and sciences. He is also the creator and maintainer of the German Propaganda Archive, the number one hit in a Google search for "Nazi propaganda”—a hit that even appears above Wikipedia’s entry on the subject and draws in over a million visitors every year. August 11,2010

Lew Klatt wins Iowa poetry prize
Lew Klatt thought that completing his latest poetry collection was the start of a long process... August 9,2010

Interning at Airbus
Traveling abroad was never something Steven Brink found particularly appealing. August 9,2010

Putting media with ministry
A passion for ministry and for communication have landed soon-to-be Calvin College senior Brian Speelman with summer internships with ReFrame Media—the English-language ministries of the Back to God Hour Ministries International, located in Palos Heights, Illinois. August 2,2010

Hampton honors CICW
In early June, John Witvliet and Charsie Sawyer stood onstage before a throng of African-American and white church leaders to accept an award for excellence in church music. July 28,2010

Faculty Profile: Douglas Vander Griend
Calvin inorganic chemistry professor Douglas Vander Griend makes shapes with molecules. July 26,2010

Post spill: an intern in Florida
Biology grad Amanda Hoffmeyer researches wildlife in Merrit Island Refuge. July 26,2010

A pair of Lilly Grad Fellows
Calvin alums Hannah Bormann '09 and Robert Zandstra '08 have been selected as Lilly Graduate Fellows for 2010-2013 July 12,2010

Managing the mowers
They had 28 applicants, and Paul Campbell and Tyler Smies knew what they were looking for: kids who could make eye contact; kids who could make conversation; kids who could show up on time. July 9,2010

Galaxy quest
Luke Leisman, a physics and English double major, presented his research on galaxy clusters July 2,2010

Expanding his options
Just a month-and-a-half after taking his final exams, Calvin junior Ryan Van Baren is working in the third-largest city in the U.S. at the largest exchange of listed options in the world. July 1,2010

Faculty Profile: Arlene Hoogewerf
Calvin biology professor Arlene Hoogewerf has had FBI agents come to her class. June 30,2010

Kalamazoo River oil spill: Q&A
Gerry Van Kooten, who worked on the recovery of Prince William Sound after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, talked about the difference between ocean and river cleanup, how to get rid of all that oil and about nature's ability to rebound in the current Michigan's Kalamazoo River oil spill. June 28,2010

Faculty Profile: Julie Walton
Calvin owes the design of its human performance lab to Julie Walton, a Calvin professor of health, physical education, recreation, dance and sport (HPERDS). June 25,2010

Learning Latin online
In the fall 2010 semester, off-campus students will be able to take Calvin Latin classes online in a new program spearheaded by Professor David Noe. June 19,2010

Faculty Profile: Joel Adams
When Joel Adams was in junior high, he used to watch his father, a professor at Geneva College, do a chemistry problem every evening. “Each problem would take him three hours,” he recalled. June 14,2010

The troubleshooter
Recently, Lori Keen, the lab services manager for the biology department was sitting among her colleagues in the Calvin chapel—puzzling over just how long she had worked for Calvin—when she heard Calvin’s president calling her name. June 13,2010

BUS 381: Harley vibes, better mops
This past semester, senior information systems major Aravind Ranganathan learned that riding a motorcycle is tiring; the vibrations produced by the machine can exhaust a rider. June 2,2010

No marks for trying
Seniors Kurt Van Allsburg and Betsy Sneller created propaganda to convince their fellow students to fill out course evaluations. May 21,2010

No marks for trying
The posters appeared around on bulletin boards around campus a few weeks ago. One features an exhausted student at her desk, and its tagline reads: "You get graded for your hard work … shouldn’t your profs?” Another shows a happy-looking student with the tagline: “Like your classes? Tell your profs.” May 21,2010

Marketing Uganda-style
Calvin senior Ashley Luse spent February in Uganda, trying to create a market for amaranth. May 14,2010

Tigchelaar: Professor of the Year
Biology professor Peter Tigchelaar wins Professor of the Year. May 10,2010

Q&A: Randy Wolthuis
After 10 years as director of the Broene Counseling Center, Randy Wolthuis is leaving Calvin to re-enter private practice as a specialist in marital issues. May 10,2010

Happy Mothers Day
See how a sampler of Calvin College students shared their opinions recently on a variety of topics: all of them related to "Mom." May 6,2010

Senior engineers get ready
It was Wednesday afternoon, May 5, and Calvin’s senior engineering majors were cleaning the two wings of the engineering building, the site of Senior Projects Night—the annual showcase of the students’ engineering ingenuity held this year on Saturday, May 8, 2010. May 6,2010

Examining extremism
Professor Katerberg shares his thought on extremism in America. April 30,2010

Fulbright for Netherlands documentaries
Images of the Netherlands—in paintings, photographs and films—have always had a significant impact on how Americans viewed the Dutch homeland, said Calvin professor of geology, geography and environmental studies (GEO) Henk Aay. April 26,2010

Aay lands Fulbright
Images of the Netherlands—in paintings, photographs and films—have always had a significant impact on how Americans viewed the Dutch homeland, said Calvin professor of geology, geography and environmental studies (GEO) Henk Aay. April 26,2010

Patterson lands Fulbright to research in Zambia
Throughout her life, Amy Patterson has worked in Senegal, taught in Ghana and studied AIDS advocacy in Zambia. April 1,2010

Calvin students create national atlases
Students in a Calvin geography class have created online national atlases for Eritrea, Thailand and Nepal with more on the way. March 26,2010

Singular they
Betsy Sneller is a defender of "they." March 25,2010

Future doc has reel skills
Calvin junior Alex Cortez recently was chosen as one of ten winners of a national video contest for aspiring doctors. March 5,2010

Celebrating women
March is Women’s History Month, and the gender studies minor at Calvin is marking the occasion by featuring three books about gender issues. March 1,2010

High school chapel 101
Calvin education professor Robert Keeley is studying the impact of high school chapel on young people’s faith. February 5,2010

Alumna brings high school students to January Series
This year, 25 students from Orion Alternative High School attended a Calvin January Series talk. January 28,2010

Korean prof reflects on first semester
Sun-Yang Hwang teaches Korean language and spreads the jeong. January 15,2010

T.R. Reid opens January Series with health care talk
Author and journalist T.R. Reid opened the January Series Wednesday, January 6, 2010 with a discussion about health care. January 8,2010

January's wakeup call
For five years, Calvin philosophy professor Matt Halteman and art professor Adam Wolpa have collaborated on Wake Up Weekend, the annual winter gathering of local and national animal advocacy organizations to be held January 22 and 23, 2010 . January 4,2010

Merry Christmas from Calvin College!
Merry Christmas from Calvin College December 25,2009

William Spoelhof in bronze
A bust of William Spoelhof created by 1958 Calvin alumnus Ken Hoving now sits atop a pedestal in the remodeled atrium of the Spoelhof Center. December 8,2009

Happy Thanksgiving from Calvin College
See what Calvin students, faculty and staff are thankful for—plus a few turkeys. November 19,2009

Paintings along the way
Speyers has learned all about the pitfalls and the pleasures of painting en plein air or “in the open air” at sites along the California coastline. November 13,2009

New enrollment VP recruits ambassadors
Everyone is an ambassador for Calvin, says new enrollment VP Russ Bloem. November 6,2009

Volleyball plays in front of record crowd
Last Wednesday night, 2,700 fans came together to watch the Calvin-Hope women's volleyball rivalry play out—setting an NCAA Division III regular season single-match attendance record. October 30,2009